{"id":44771,"date":"2015-12-24T21:21:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T21:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44771"},"modified":"2015-12-24T21:21:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T21:21:28","slug":"philosophy-of-race-meets-population-genetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44771","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy of race meets population genetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.shpsc.2015.04.003\" target=\"_blank\">Philosophy of race meets population genetics<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/journal\/13698486\" target=\"_blank\">Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/journal\/13698486\/52\/supp\/C\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 52, August 2015<\/a><br \/>\npages 46\u201355<br \/>\nGenomics and Philosophy of Race<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.shpsc.2015.04.003\" target=\"_blank\">10.1016\/j.shpsc.2015.04.003<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/philosophy.sas.upenn.edu\/bio\/spencer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Quayshawn Spencer<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Philosophy<br \/>\n<em>University of Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I discuss the recent human population-genetic research that has revived biological racial realism.<\/li>\n<li>I summarize four semantic and metaphysical objections to the new biological racial realism.<\/li>\n<li>I show that each objection stems from an implausible semantic or metaphysical assumption.<\/li>\n<li>I provide 3 suggestions for how to productively move forward in the debate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this paper, I respond to four common semantic and metaphysical objections that philosophers of race have launched at scholars who interpret recent <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human_genetic_clustering\" target=\"_blank\">human genetic clustering<\/a> results in population genetics as evidence for biological racial realism. I call these objections \u2018the discreteness objection\u2019, \u2018the visibility objection\u2019, \u2018the very important objection\u2019, and \u2018the objectively real objection.\u2019 After motivating each objection, I show that each one stems from implausible philosophical assumptions about the relevant meaning of \u2018race\u2019 or the nature of biological racial realism. In order to be constructive, I end by offering some advice for how we can productively critique attempts to defend biological racial realism based on recent human genetic clustering results. I also offer a clarification of the relevant human-population genetic research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philosophy of race meets population genetics Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Volume 52, August 2015 pages 46\u201355 Genomics and Philosophy of Race DOI: 10.1016\/j.shpsc.2015.04.003 Quayshawn Spencer, Assistant Professor of Philosophy University of Pennsylvania Highlights I discuss the recent human population-genetic research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8,6941],"tags":[22394,19647],"class_list":["post-44771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-philosophy","tag-quayshawn-spencer","tag-studies-in-history-and-philosophy-of-science-part-c-studies-in-history-and-philosophy-of-biological-and-biomedical-sciences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44774,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44771\/revisions\/44774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}